Aanin checkpoint: That's it. closed down.
06:00- 08:00
Barta’a Checkpoint
The area of the upper parking lot is bursting with contractors’ shuttles and with people waiting for transportation to work. On the pedestrian path going up from the terminal, called the sleeve (the enclosed passage to and from the terminal), are hundreds of workers who cross the terminal and join those waiting. Around 06:30, the crowding eases considerably. There doesn’t seem to be tension in the conduct of the checkpoint.
A resident of Anin, who arrived at this checkpoint, tells us that last week an officer of the Liaison and Coordination Administration announced that Anin Checkpoint will be closed for passage and will only open twice a year, for harvesting and working with the olives.
Anin Checkpoint
Unlike other Wednesdays, when the checkpoint was always open, the checkpoint is closed. Cars and trucks on the security road travel in two directions. Soldiers who are stationed there 24/7, said they were notified that the checkpoint would not be open today. We phone our acquaintance, M, who tells us that he, with his tractor, and with many other people, stands on the opposite side of the monstrous wall and waits for the checkpoint’s opening. Later, he told us that the agricultural checkpoint Tayibe-Rumana, which is next to Anin and to Umm-al-Fahm, was open for passage at 06:30 and closed immediately.
At about 09:00, it was finally clarified that Anin checkpoint would no longer be open, apparently, until the olive harvest.
'Anin checkpoint (214)
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'Anin checkpoint (214)
'Anin checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence east of the Israeli community Mei Ami and close to the village of Anin in the West Bank. It is opened twice a week, morning and afternoon, on days with shorter light time, for Anin farmers whose olive groves have been separated from the village by the fence it became difficult to cultivate their land. Transit permits are only issued to those who can produce ownership documents for their caged-in land, and sometimes only to the head of the family or his widow, eldest son, and children. Sometimes the inheritors lose their right to tend to the family’s land. The permits are eked out and are re-issued only with difficulty. 55-year-old persons may cross the checkpoint (into Israel) without special permits. During the olive harvest season (about one month around October) the checkpoint is open daily and more transit permits are issued. Names of persons eligible to cross are held in the soldiers’ computers. In July 2007, a sweeping instruction was issued, stating that whoever does not return to the village through this checkpoint in the afternoon will be stripped of his transit permit when he shows up there next time. Since 2019, the checkpoint has not been allways locked with the seam-line zone gate (1 of 3 gates), and the fence around it has been broken in several sites.
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Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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